Games like The Previous Owner
If The Previous Owner is your kind of game, the closest matches are In Trusted Hands, The Magic Bookstore and Shoku Pain — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Previous Owner: Run a secondhand bookshop in London, 1994. Every book remembers who owned it before — pressed flowers, letters, notes in the margins. Across books that should never have met, the same hand keeps writing. You inherited the rules with the shop: shelve carefully, and do not read the margins.
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Steam players who put hours into The Previous Owner also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
In Trusted Hands
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Top pick for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
Dive into the daily work of a cozy workshop in a big city, accompanied by relaxing atmospheric music. Manage client data, balance energy and stress, and make choices that shape the story and its outcome.
The Magic Bookstore
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Second-strongest match for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Play as a young witch named Willow, who has just inherited a bookstore from her grandmother in the magical town of Lindow. Learn magic, help the townsfolk with their problems, and run the bookstore. There’s a lot to learn about selling not just books, but potions too!
Shoku Pain
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Third-strongest match for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Run a night-shift bakery inside a quarantine zone. Every customer looks human at first. Check their symptoms, fill the report, and make the call — bread, medicine, or the knife. Keep your supplies stocked and beware what waits outside the glass.
Roads & Riches: Traveling Merchant Simulator
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Ranked #4 for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
Hit the road with your merchant caravan! Travel across faraway lands, sell wonderful wares, and find magical treasures - all to win over the world's hearts, minds... and wallets!
Final Profit: A Shop RPG
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Ranked #5 for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!
Corner Shop: NightShift
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Ranked #6 for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
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Ranked #7 for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.
Echoes of the Plum Grove
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Ranked #8 for The Previous Owner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Previous Owner.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Previous Owner.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Previous Owner.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from 3Cats Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by 3Cats Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
All Time High
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Another title from 3Cats Studio, the studio behind The Previous Owner. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
A trading app, a group chat, and one "just one more trade." Chase a California fortune through a crypto mania where every gain costs something you can't buy back — a moral-descent thriller told entirely through your phone. Your choices write the ledger. Six endings.
Dear Nobody
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Another title from 3Cats Studio, the studio behind The Previous Owner. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
1453: Fall of Constantinople
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Another title from 3Cats Studio, the studio behind The Previous Owner. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
PLEASE CONFIRM THE DECEASED
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Another title from 3Cats Studio, the studio behind The Previous Owner. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Night shift at the municipal morgue. Bodies arrive with paperwork, and the paperwork has to match the body. Weigh it, measure it, take its temperature — listen to its chest. The rulebook gains a page every night, and some of what you sign in does not stay signed in.
Per My Last Email
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Another title from 3Cats Studio, the studio behind The Previous Owner. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
You are the new hire. The account you inherited is not new — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email in which you choose what you say, then choose who sees it. The routing is permanent. Someone is still reading.
Frequently asked about The Previous Owner
- What games are most similar to The Previous Owner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Previous Owner are In Trusted Hands, The Magic Bookstore, Shoku Pain.
- Who developed The Previous Owner?
- The Previous Owner was developed by 3Cats Studio.
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